Greetings from paradise...
Howdy Steemite community! I joined Steemit about a week ago after seeing a recommendation by Tony Sayers (
My name is Ingrid, and I live in a little drinking town with a fishing problem, on the south coast of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa :) It's a tropical paradise with all the wonders you would expect: lush green foliage, brightly coloured blooms, balmy weather, mostly harmonious bird song and warm cerulean waves. As with any outlook in life, balancing these joys are sometimes exotic and unidentifiable insects of WTF! size and physiology, a rampantly mischievous vervet monkey community, the impossibly futile task of maintaining a well manicured garden and the occasional freak weather conditions where the rain and wind conspire to eradicate all signs of human civilisation. But we do love it here and I count myself very privileged to be able to call it home.
Continuing in the same vein of balance in all things, I work in an IT based corporate environment in a nearby city, whilst releasing my creative side after hours. My interests are the opposite of my earning occupation and include hiking, poetry, reading, psychedelia and esoterica, 80s alternative music, Japanese room escape games, feather lashes, cooking and food, and self healing.
I have been quite impressed with what I've seen on Steemit so far. Besides some interesting articles and creativity, it is the community concept that has most amazed me. If only the world was like the Steemite community! Self governance and policing, kindness and encouragement, friendliness and caring, NO BORDERS, sharing of information and experiences. All the basic decency and all the positivity that should exist in real life!
I joined Steemit as a pioneer for a few friends who need a source of income that is off the beaten track, as well as a platform for expressing ideas, opinions and theories that are very far off the beaten track, in fact, so deep in the bushes, you need you'd probably need a machete to find your way out!
And I thank you for your attention, and I'm outta here!
(quote partially, mostly, attributed to Kurt Vonnegut's Armaggedon In Retrospect... with a modern twist)